Mother arrested in Poughkeepsie expected to plea in fatal fire

5:51 PM,
Dec. 6, 2012

Bobbie Kugler, far right, the mother of the four children who died in the Grape Street fire.

Written by

Brian Sharp
Democrat and Chronicle

A Rochester mother accused of setting a fire that killed four of her children is expected to enter a plea Friday morning as part of a deal that would send her to prison for five to 15 years, her lawyer said.

Bobbie J. Kugler, 31, is facing four counts of second-degree murder, four counts of second-degree manslaughter, three-counts of second-degree assault and one count of fourth-degree arson, all felonies.

She was arrested in April in Poughkeepsie, where she had been living. ...